Re: require() relative to calling file

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 8:48 AM, Russell Haley <russ.haley@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have counter arguments but that's not the point. The only reason I
> spoke up is because I ran into this myself when I was starting with
> Lua. The way it searches the current path and chooses the defaults to
> search is opaque to casual users.

pl.app.require_here() does basically what you want:

http://stevedonovan.github.io/Penlight/api/libraries/pl.app.html

The issue here is basically that Lua works mostly with absolute module
search paths (with the exception of "current directly"), and people
become accustomed to their application being 'special'.